The incident of an 11 year old boy passing away because a tree fell on a school bus in Chembur is one of the many, many avoidable deaths we come across in news. The root cause of such deaths in India? Corrupt sarkaari babus who have zero responsibility and negative accountability for their (lack of) actions. If we begin debating how these despicable government officials can be held accountable, we will hit a dead end at exactly one place: they are simply unwilling to do their duty. So they will find a way around every regulation, every investigation and every solution that is implemented to make them work harder.
The solution probably lies in positive infiltration of the system. Millennials and GenZ are sick and tired of this corrupt system that serves itself, so its only us who can take the collective responsibility to ‘cleanse’ the administrative system by filling it with good youngsters who enter the system with a fresh mindset.
“But the system will eventually make them corrupt”
Yes, I’m aware that one good person cannot revive, or even survive a corrupt ecosystem. That’s why the change must start at the ground level – the education system where young minds can be channelled in the direction of sustaining a systematic administration. Capable individuals taking up governmental positions, giving bureaucracy and regulations their due diligence, actually responding to pleas and petitions of the people and simply doing the work can change this country to a great extent.
We’ve lived through so many years of corrupt administration that we’re too pessimistic about its revival. I’m probably a fool who thinks that a collective effort that starts at the educational level can do some actual good. Although I’m not dreaming of some distant utopia; but I do believe that this is reversible. Capable young minds need a collective sense of direction.
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